In the interview she explains how she started "The very first quilted map I made was designed to be a wayfinding tool for the visually impaired; my mother was diagnosed with glaucoma and macular degeneration while I was a student at TCAUP”.

vado retro was curious "Would we have the same outrage say if a hospital were the ones tearing down the FAM...Our response of outrage is as if we were vegetarians and found out the cute vegetarian we just started dating had a dayjob at the slaughterhouse".

Natalie Hein reported in from architect Sou Fujimoto’s lecture 'Between Nature and Architecture' lecture at Cooper Union. Hosted by Architectural League of New York the lecture touched on limbo, dichotomies and nature in his architecture.

citizen felt "The old May Co. building on the right is looking better and better" while EEK added "It's like some big alien tick, extending it's feeding tentacles to suck the blood out of the existing May Co. building".

School/BlogsStudents at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, NZ started a blog to chronicle Studio 19 a collaboration between UNITEC and Strachan Group Architects (SGA). Third year architecture students will be working alongside SGA to design (with some build) a master plan of eight houses, for elderly members of Ngāti Whātua O Ōrākei.

DiscussionsSarah Lorenzen, architect and Chair of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona was "very troubled at the number of design firms that are still not paying interns. AIA, NCARB, many state boards, and most schools have tried to penalize firms".

jla-x opined "The way to fix this problem is to have an interns union". med. added "There is absolutely no one who can justify an unpaid internship...those who do even slightly are a complete and utter joke".

SpatialSojourner shared an image of Queen's College Florey building, which citizen labeled "Worm's-eye axonometric". OM.. recommended checking out "atelier bow-wow” but mightyaa had their own question "Doesn't anybody use the Ching books anymore?"

curtkram believed "there might be growing pains, but the economy is pretty flexible and in time it will adjust. having the economy adjust in a way that allows interns a reasonable living wage and access to minimum healthcare standards is a good thing". won and done williams was more interested in the new overtime rules and thinks they are "potentially more of an issue for small businesses than Obamacare is. Because the new overtime rules are income contingent...hey may have the bizarre effect of raising intern starting wages in order for employers to avoid having to pay 1.5x overtime".